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For theCurbside Recycle Elsewhere Recycle Bin DO NOT PUT IN CURBSIDE BIN

WRAPPING STYROFOAM & PACKING PEANUTS Recycle wrapping paper in your curbside bin, Can be reused or thrown in the trash. See or in the bin at the City’s fcgov.com/recyclingcenters for details. Timberline Recycling Center. DO NOT include metallic wrapping COOKING OIL paper or ribbons or bows. Drop off used cooking oil in a clear, sealed container at Eco-Thrift, eco-thrift.com for no cost. DO NOT put fats, oils and grease down the drain. Recycle tissue paper in your curbside bin, or in the paperboard bin at the City’s Timberline BATTERIES Recycling Center. Do NOT include glitter, Drop off batteries to the hard-to-recycle metallic items, or any ribbons or bows. materials yard at the City’s Timberline Recycling Center or at Larimer County’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility. Recycle cardboard in your curbside bin, or at the City’s Timberline Recycling PLASTIC BAGS Center. Disposing of cardboard in the Recycle clean, dry, empty plastic bags at grocery trash is illegal in Fort Collins. stores and other stores. For complete details, see fcgov.com/recyclingcenters.

HOLIDAY LIGHTS & EXTENSION CORDS Recycle strings of lights and extension cords at scrap Tree Recycling metal recyclers. See City’s recycling directory for details. Do NOT place in curbside recycle bin. Recycle trees from Dec. 26 to Jan. 16. Please remove all lights, string, wire, metal ELECTRONICS hooks, nails, ornaments, tinsel, fake snow Disposing of electronics in the trash or and bags before taking trees to one of in your curbside recycling bin is illegal these drop-off locations. in the state of Colorado due to the toxicity of their components. See - Edora Park, 1420 E. Stuart St. (tennis court parking lot) fcgov.com/recyclingcenters for details. - Rolland Moore Park, 2201 S. Shields St. (southeast corner of parking lot) Timberline Recycling Center - City Streets Facility, 625 Ninth St. (southwest corner of Vine and Lemay) 1903 S. Timberline Rd. fcgov.com/timberlinerecycling Environmental - Fossil Creek Park, 5821 S. Lemay Ave. Services (enter on Lemay Ave.) Larimer County Household Hazardous Waste Facility - Wellington Recycling Drop-off, 5887 S. Taft Hill Rd. Town Garage (corner of 6th and Grant) larimer.org/solidwaste/haz.htm TIPS FOR A GREENER SEASON

WHAT’S SOLD HOLIDAY EXCESS EACH YEAR From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, household waste increases by more than 25%.

Added food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons—it all adds up to an additional one million tons a week in the nation's garbage piles. Source: Reduce.org 2.6 30 An estimated 2.6 billion holiday cards are sold each year in the BILLION 4 MILLION United States, enough to fill a football field 10 stories high. MILLION TONS Source: CalRecycle

Holiday Gift Wrap Live Holiday The U.S. alone generates annual trash from gift-wrap and shopping Cards & Bags Trees bags totaling four million tons. Source: Use Less Stuff Approximately 30 million live holiday trees are sold in North America every year. Source: EPA

USE LEDS AND BE CREATIVE WITH GIFTS TIMERS FOR LIGHTS AND GIFT WRAPPING! Put holiday lights on timers. Leaving Wrap your gifts in style and save money and paper. Reuse fun paper holiday lights on for 24 hours will such as maps, comics, posters or calendars. Or go reusable with quadruple energy costs and produce colorful fabric scraps or a gift bag. four times more pollution than necessary! Set a timer to turn the Consider giving gifts with a smaller eco-footprint. Look for gifts with lights on at dusk and off when you go minimal packaging, or made from recycled materials, produced locally, to bed. and being recyclable locally. Edible gifts or the gift of an experience (such as tickets to an event) are excellent choices, too.